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150 HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS
This holds good on all varieties of plays, and allows the person who reads your script to put it into a certain class in his mind at once. If his company is in need of the particular style of play you have submitted, a favorable impression is created at once, and your chances of sale are increased in accordance. It is but very little extra work, and the possible returns certainly are worth the effort.
WRITING AND SELLING.
One of the most difficult things for an amateur to realize is that, though many can write scenarios, every one cannot write salable ones. The popular belief seems to be that when the last sheet of the manuscript is removed from the typewriter, all effort on the part of the author ceases, and the editors must hungrily devour the finished product should it be offered to them.
We know it is hard for the beginner to break away from old beliefs, but for his own good we advise him to regard the writing and selling of a scenario as two distinctly different arts, each of which requires no little amount of skill. It is very true that a great deal of energy must be used during the creation of a picture play, but it is equally true, though not generally accepted by new hands at the game, that fully as much energy is needed to direct its sale.
The writer who works earnestly to get a script into proper form, but who does not study the markets carefully, and who sends his script here and there, without any assurance that the companies to whom he mails it